With all respects to heaven, I like it here.
Colum McCannIt struck me that distant cities are designed precisely so you can know where you came from. We bring home with us when we leave. Sometimes it becomes more acute for the fact of having left.
Colum McCannThe stars looked like nail heads in the sky--pull a few of them out and the darkness would fall.
Colum McCannWhat Corrigan wanted was a fully believable God, one you could find in the grime of the everyday.
Colum McCannIt was one of those moments when everything is out of balance, I suppose, and just watching an odd thing seems to make sense. The squirrel scampered up a tree trunk, the sound of its nails like water in a tub.
Colum McCannThe disconnect between his mouth and his mind. That's where the camera came in. It was the unspoken thing between him and the others.
Colum McCannThere wasn't much left for anyone to die for, except the right to remain peculiar.
Colum McCannIt was America, after all. The sort of place where you should be allowed to walk as high as you wanted. But what if you were the one walking underneath? What if the tightrope walker really had fallen? It was quite possible that he could have killed not just himself, but a dozen people below. Recklessness and freedom - how did they become a cocktail?
Colum McCannThe watchers below pulled their breath in all at once. The air suddenly felt shared. The man above was a word they seemed to know, though they had not heard it before.
Colum McCannThere was a quote about "standing in a river too long or long enough" that I can't find now. Anyone remember? If so, what page?
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